Garfield: Complete Works #1

This handsome hardcover collects Jim Davis's complete Garfield newspaper strips from 1978 and 1979, offering a definitive look at the strip's earliest years in a single volume. The cover showcases Davis's own artwork — a close-up portrait of a gloriously smug, heavy-lidded Garfield rendered in warm oranges and bold blacks against a rich burgundy background, with tiny strip panels lining the spine. It's a warm, well-designed package that lets one of comics' most beloved lasagna-loving cats speak for himself, right from the very beginning.